Re: Entirely ignoring TCP and UDP checksum in kernel level

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Josan Kadett wrote:
> It is definetely impossible to use IPTables to handle packets with incorrect
> checksums since NAT would drop the connection right away, otherwise I would
> not have been asking this question here.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aidas Kasparas [mailto:a.kasparas@gmc.lt] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:54 AM
> To: Josan Kadett
> Subject: Re: Entirely ignoring TCP and UDP checksum in kernel level
> 
> How about setting up a separate box which would listen on that 
> 192.168.77.1 address and MASQUERADE connections to your crazy box from 
> 192.168.1.x address? Maybe then you would no longer need to break things 
>   in kernel?

Isn't rp_filter for this?

A chunk of my iptables firewall script is:

# Force route verification
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 1 > $f; done

So why don't you try:
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo "0" > $f; done

Kalin.

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